Quotes about Prudence
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
- Julian Casablancas
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
- Herman Melville
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
- Publilius Syrus
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
- John Ortberg
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
- George Bernard Shaw
The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Saint Jerome
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- Samuel Johnson
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Samuel Johnson
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
- John Milton
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
- Mark Twain